While ASG has been criticized for its haphazard operation, it is important to consider the fact that ASG as we know it today has only been in operation for three years. Metropolitan CityFoods, a buying group formed from the prior DiGiorgio stores whose members run Met Foodmarkets and Pioneer Supermarkets.Grupo Compare, a franchised chain that runs Compare Foods Supermarkets and.Associated Food Holdings, a buying group whose members run Associated Supermarkets.Today, ASG is an overarching management corporation which operates three distinct supermarket groups: The retail divisions (including Met and Pioneer stores) were taken over by the newly-formed Associated Supermarket Group (ASG), which also absorbed the essentially defunct Associated Food Holdings and Grupo Compare. The wholesale division was absorbed by C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene, NH, which still produces White Rose products. In 2014, following DiGiorgio's bankruptcy, its assets were divided among other corporations. It maintained a working relationship with Associated Food Holdings and was supplied by the DiGiorgio Corporation. While some stores were still owned and operated by the Pe ña family, the Grupo Compare had also made the trade name available to franchise operators. When he realized that the Hispanic population was rapidly increasing in North Carolina, he opened the first Compare Foods in Zebulon, NC, in 2000, followed by a larger store in Charlotte in 2003.īy 2014, the Grupo Compare had expanded into multiple East Coast states with over 90 stores.
Pe ña found success in buying or moving into closed chain stores and converting them to the Hispanic-focused Compare banner, expanding into Connecticut and Massachusetts. A similar store opened in nearby Brentwood, NY the following year. The first Compare Foods Supermarket, a member of Associated Food Holdings, opened in Freeport, NY in 1987. At first he worked with Associated Supermarkets, but later, realizing that most supermarkets had English names, he chose a name that would be equally understandable to both English and Spanish speakers, and mean the same in both languages. After working in a bodega for several years, he opened his first supermarket in Woodside, Queens, NY in 1978. Met Foodmarkets retained its DiGiorgio ownership until 2014.Ī Dominican immigrant, Eligio Pe ña arrived in New York City in 1970, fleeing political unrest in the Dominican Republic. The split group became known as the Neighborhood Supermarket Association, today known as America's Food Basket. This was probably the largest single blow to the Met Foods group, and the already-struggling cooperative started its quickly-increasing decline. In 2005, a group of independent Met Foods operators decided to split off from Met, still under the supervision of DiGiorgio, and form their own cooperative. DiGiorgio was ultimately cut down in the 1990s to only its grocery wholesaling and retailing operations, leaving Met Foods and White Rose as the primary functions of DiGiorgio.
It operated as an independent supermarket group with its own storebrand, Met Foods, until its purchase in 1965 by the DiGiorgio Corporation, a fruit wholesaler, and its storebrand was changed to White Rose. Met Foodmarkets, a longtime New York City cooperative, was formed in 1941, predating all major cooperatives in the New York metropolitan area except IGA and Krasdale. Met Foodmarkets & DiGiorgio Foods: 1941-2014 One of the prime examples of this is the Shehadeh brothers, whose stores switched from Associated to Key Food in 2013.Ī Seabra Foods of Union, NJ has maintained a relationship with Associated Food Holdings since at least 2007. These members typically switched to other cooperatives, especially Key Food of Staten Island, NY and Krasdale Foods of White Plains, NY. Morton Williams split from Associated around 2010 and now has a distribution contract with Wakefern Food of Elizabeth, NJ.ĭuring DiGiorgio's bankruptcy, many members became frustrated with the inconsistent supply provided by the suffering wholesaler in transition. One of Associated's most recognized members was what now is called Morton Williams Supermarkets, an old-school New York City chain doing business as Morton Williams Associated. Associated's wholesaler, White Rose of Carteret, NJ, filed for bankruptcy in 2014 and ultimately liquidated to C&S Wholesale Grocers. Doing business as both Associated Supermarkets and Super A Supermarkets in the past, the group's banners were consolidated under Associated Supermarkets by 2014. Formed in 1954, the Associated Supermarkets cooperative (also known as Associated Food Holdings) is one of the iconic New York City brands.
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